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Re: Verb order in Montreiano

From:Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
Date:Monday, April 2, 2001, 21:57
On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Barry Garcia wrote:

> CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes: > >But seeing this made me want to ask: In what order do people like to > >settle on grammatical features (whether or not said features are later > >revised)? > > Well, I hadnt actually set the word order. It was in the back of my mind > set as SVO: Tu comist a mi casa. So, i had been going along with that. I > havent had a lot of time to really think about Montreiano with school and > work (I havent done anything with the grammar since oh....february). So, > when i read Padraic's archives for Brithenig, i saw the message talking > about that order, and since I liked it so much in Tagalog, i decided that > would be the main order. I also think the sentence looks cleaner this way > (i think learning Tagalog has kind of influenced me to like monosyllabic > pronouns to go after the polysyllabic nouns ;)).
Okay, that makes sense. :-) I'm beginning to see why people tear the guts out of their conlangs and cheerfully replace them, or otherwise perform surgery, since I've decided to do it myself...it's just fun. YHL